Word: sectioning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...begins at the first section meeting. Every section has a distinct personality and early on we learn if we have a Quiet Section or a Loud Section. A Loud Section needs no prompting, we walk into the room and people are already arguing about the books. All we need to say is "so what did you make of this week's reading," and people are frantically waving about underlined passages, drawing diagrams on the board and trying desperately to get Habermas on the phone. For teaching fellows a Loud Section is a precious gift. We just show up for class...
...Quiet Section is much harder to shake up. We come in with what we are certain are provocative statements, explosive insights and highly ingenious teaching aids, only to be met with complete silence. We can almost hear them thinking, "just when is lunch?" It's as though the class as a whole is trying not to wake the baby. It seems such a shame to disturb the peace with idle chit-chat. At moments like these, we TFs think to ourselves, "I really should have gone into investment banking like Mom and Dad said. Perhaps from...
...courses, it is not only teaching fellows who are occasionally ill-equipped to answer questions. I have heard from my spies that students have at times come to section--and I know this will come as a shock--without having done every word of the assigned reading. In section, contrary to students, gallant, even Herculean attempts to disguise the fact, it is usually apparent to the TF who has done the reading...
Past Inman Square and past Prospect Street, theproliferation of Portuguese restaurants andmarkets is stunning. One section of Cambridge St.is all fish and poultry markets...
...years at Harvard, I have been called many things, few of them pleasant. If you think I have elicited rather harsh epithets in the "Letters" section of this page, you should see the letters my editors forbore to print. But I do not mean to repine over unrequited love or unjust persecution. Far form it, since I never sought to be loved or to be treated justly...